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Nick Arnold
(19??-)

Nick Arnold is author of the Horrible Science series including books such as Blood, Bones and Body Bits and Evil Inventions. By the end of 2007 the series published by Scholastic in the UK had sold getting on for 5 million copies with an estimated 10 million sales worldwide. The books are on sale in 40 countries and have led to a successful range of magazines, science kits and jigsaws. In addition there have been Horrible Science teacher resource guides for KS2 and a series of Horrible Science handbooks.

Horrible Science books have twice won the Aventis Prize and three times been short-listed for the award.

The aim of the Horrible Science books is to enthuse readers about Science by engaging their interest and imagination. The books aim to do this by taking a humorous and self-consciously gory approach to the subject. In some books fictional characters are used to illuminate the subject or guide the reader.

Nick Arnold has presented numerous Horrible Science shows in theatres and festivals in the UK, Ireland and several other countries. Most notably in 2004 he and illustrator Tony De Saulles were the first UK writers to do a promotional tour of China.

Nick Arnold has always regarded himself a writer rather than a science writer and his background is journalism and publishing. He has also written Wild Lives – a series of non-fiction based animal stories for Scholastic. In 2007 he founded and directed the Appledore Book Festival in Devon, England.

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